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On a recent team of 8 we faced a feature that doubled CI times from 10 to 22 minutes. I first measured where time went and prioritized: unit tests ran fast, integration and end-to-end (E2E) tests were the culprit. I proposed splitting test suites and gate commits on fast checks while running full E2E pipelines asynchronously. We added build caching, parallelized jobs, and implemented incremental CI that runs only impacted test subsets—this cut perceived feedback to ~4 minutes for 80% of commits, while nightly full-suite runs and pre-merge E2E for release branches preserved quality. We used feature flags to merge early without exposing unstable code. Within a month we reduced team idle time by ~60% and kept our defect rate stable at ~0.5 bugs/1000 LOC.
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